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a Shepherd of the Sheep of Israel. This Prophet has
also some apocalyptical portions in his book. In his
first vision with which he begins his prophetic book,
he sees besides the sapphire throne of the Eternal the
appearance of “the Son of Man.” [1] This “Son of Man”
who is repeatedly mentioned as always in the presence
of God and above the Cherubim is not Hezekiel (or
Ezekiel) himself [2] He is the prophetical “Barnasha,”
the Last Prophet, who was appointed to save the people
of God from the hands of the unbelievers here upon this
earth, and not elsewhere!

(a) “The Son of Man” according to the Apocalypse of
Enoch (or Henoh).

There is no doubt that Jesus Christ (pbuh) was very
familiar with the Revelation of Enoch, believed to be
written by the seventh patriarch from Adam (pbuh) . For
Judah, “the brother of James” and the “servant of Jesus
Christ (pbuh) ,” that is the brother of Jesus (pbuh) , believes
that Enoch was the real author of the work bearing his
name [3] There are some dispersed fragments of this
wonderful Apocalypse preserved in the quotations of the
Early Christian writers. The book was lost long before
Photius. It was only about the beginning of last century
that this important work was found in the Canon of the
Scriptures belonging to the Abyssinian Church, and
translated from the Ethiopic into the German language
by Dr. Dillmann, with notes and explanations [4] . The
book is divided into five parts or books, and the whole
contains one hundred and ten chapters of unequal length.
The author describes the fall of the angels, their illicit

[1] Ezek. i. 26.

[2] Ezek. x. 2.

[3] Judah i. 14. In the Gospels, he is mentioned as one of the four brothers of Jesus,
Matt. xiii. 55, 56, etc.

[4] It has also been translated into English by an Irish Bishop, Laurence.